*Slip-Mixer* - June 22 - July 3, 2023
Summer Ceramics Group Show Curated by Tetsuji Aono
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Summer Ceramics Group Show Curated by Tetsuji Aono
For sales inquires contact us at [email protected]
About the Artists:
Michael Arata
1. Doug Harvey review. ARATA TAT TAT https://lessart.wordpress.com/2021/04/15/arata-tat-tat/2/
2. Divereted destruction link. Face book. 2022
http://www.diversionsla.com/diverted-destruction-at-csula-14th-iteration-of-making-magic-from-discardedobjects/
Izzy Favela
Los Angeles-based artist, Isai "Izzy" Favela is best known for his juxtaposition of geometric forms (human) and organisms (nature) in ceramics. Which are interspersed with messages and realistic pieces that refer to the conflict between human and nature through habitat loss and fragmentation, overexploitation, pollution, and invasive species. This feeling is reflected through Izzy’s choice of material. In contrast to the fine craftsmanship associated with clay and glazes. Nature holds a special relevance in Favela’s practice and his works often reference that, as humans, we too come from mother earth. He seeks to draw attention to the ecological crisis generated by anthropocenic actions and remind people that the problem is drastically progressing as the world continues to be paved. Using light sources within the sculpture, Favela focuses on a discreet, intimate moment and connects the viewer to the piece. Isai places the personal within a broader macro-relationship to human vs. nature. Each viewer will ultimately see something different. He has exhibited his artwork at The American Museum of Ceramic Art, The Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, COMA Gallery, and the Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery
Joanne Horton
Born on July 15, 1972, and raised in Los Angeles, California. She studied at Otis College of Art and Design with Ralph Bacerra, and graduated in 1994 with a BFA degree in Ceramics. Her work deals with the issues of sexuality and popular culture, and the way that women strive to fit the the impossible stan- dards set forth by Hollywood and the fashion industry. Joanne is particularly inspired by plastic surgery, both good and bad. In her work, she shares Ralph Bacerra’s ethos of creating art that is beautiful and well constructed.
Website http://www.creativefire-studio.com
Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly is a ceramic artist and studio art instructor working in Los Angeles, California. Sean was introduced to ceramic art through sculptor Luis Bermudez during his undergraduate program at California State University, Los Angeles. Sean earned his B.A. and M.F.A in Studio Art from CSULA. Sean has served as a ceramics instructor for undergraduate courses and for K-12 arts programs within Los Angeles. Sean's art practice is conceptually driven by storytelling, mythology, scientific knowledge, and the natural world. Sean has participated in group exhibitions at The American Museum of Ceramic Art, The Luckman Gallery, and the Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery.
Website: https://seankellyartist.com Instragram:@seankellyart
Jim Keville
Website: http://www.jimkeville.com/cv.html
Kathleen Klein-Wakefield
I like to use ceramic clay to make sculptures. I like clay as it enables me to draw in the 3rd dimension. I see my sculptures as 3D Drawings. Most of the objects I like to sculpt are the ones rich with history and details that I can manipulate and have fun with. I can combine details to where they become absurd or playful. I use different building techniques and surface treatments such as marks in the clay, surface textures, and glazing to make the sculptures identifiable. With these, I can suggest wood or metal. Occasionally I add actual wood and metal in small amounts, a dash or sprinkle. However, the sculptures are primarily made out of clay.
Many of the objects I sculpt in clay such as cameras, radios, telephones, and clocks are changing or disappearing completely or their definitions and roles have changed significantly. They tend to retain a relatable quality to them.
Nikki Lewis
Nikki Lewis is a Los Angeles based ceramic artist and educator who has worked in the ceramics field for over 25 years. She explores pattern, design, color theory, and narrative in her hand-built and thrown works. Lewis has exhibited widely and lectures frequently on mid-century female ceramic artists, most notably at the Bauhaus Centennial. In addition to teaching and making, Lewis co-founded KL Projects with artist Katie Queen and has curated several contemporary ceramic exhibitions. Lewis holds her MFA from UCLA and is Professor of Art at Mt. San Antonio College.
Diana Madriaga
My work is sculptural narrative amalgamating mythology, lore and history. By utilizing domestic materials such as wood, fibers, ceramic and glass, I wish to engage the viewer through subconscious familiarity. I work thematically within a specific timeline for each body of work, submerging myself in techniques and the social and cultural practices of the era. I use material and experiential discovery to create storylines that accompany my work.
I am currently working in the Victorian era and producing work fabricated by traditional methods using contemporary tools. I am drawn to the period’s architecture, home furnishings and unique inventions created to improve quotidian domestic tasks. I am fascinated by the creative solutions inventors would employ to construct. Objects like butter churns, stereoscopes and elaborate quilts often catch my eye. deconstructing their complex facture illuminates the creator’s vision. I find inspiration for my work in the inconspicuous details. I can only hope to capture a fragment of their brilliance with a meticulous eye to every joint, coil, stitch and soldered seam.
Website: dianamadriaga.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@claytocanopy
Rich Mudge
Toys are fascinating. They are such complex little objects of cosmopolitan mythology within consumerism, inspiring rituals that make it the billion-dollar industry that it is today. The mass consumption of toys is significant of, and mirrors current desires with in popular culture. Art exists on much the same line. The collection of high art spans the gamut, yet, in this world, it is the collection of these elite objects that drives the machinery of museum, gallery, artist, and connoisseur. In fact, when you place a toy collector of mass culture next to an art collector of elite culture and peel away the layers, they are the very same person. They both worship their objects, the objects generally appreciate in value, often the objects are enshrined in the house, and these objects are the center pieces of many social functions. Ultimately the objects are a mark of their place within socio-consumerist hierarchy. For this piece, I chose to create what looks to be a toy car from multiple, interlocking tiles. Traditional ceramics finds its roots deep within functionality, namely utilitarian ware and decorative tiles. Though the piece comprises of mostly tiles, it portends a completely different form of functionality.
Website: https://creativefire-studio.com & https://www.creativefirekilnandkitchen.com
Elaine Parks
Elaine Parks Elaine is a ceramicist and sculptor. A Los Angeles native, she received her MFA from California State University, Los Angeles. In 1999 Parks moved from a town of 14 million to Tuscarora, Nevada, a town of 14 people. In Nevada, her work has been exhibited at the Nevada Museum of Art, Oats Park Art Center, Marjorie Barrick Museum, Sierra Arts and The Holland Project. Elaine taught art for seven years at Great Basin College in Elko and twice received the Nevada Arts Council Fellowship Award. She is a board member of the Tuscarora Pottery School and Double Scoop Art. During her most recent period of residence in Los Angeles, Elaine participated twice in Telephone, an international game of art, whispered around the world. In 2010, Elaine curated and hosted a pop-up exhibition with 24 artists, music and performance events called pLAyLAnd. Nationally and internationally, Elaine was part of LA Contraventions in Germany, Cryptographics: a tribute to the Voynich Manuscript at the EXPO Chicago and designed sets and costumes for Cabaret Revoltaire: 100 Years of Dada, a performance event at ArtShareLA. Elaine exhibited in Los Angeles at LA Artcore, Far Bazaar, Angels Gate Cultural Center, L2Kontemporary, Antebellum Gallery and Beyond Baroque. Elaine is now a permanent resident of Nevada, a place she considers her spiritual home.
Website: https://www.behance.net/elaineparks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elaineparksart/
Tuan Phan
Education:
March 2001 California State University, Los Angeles ● M.F.A. Studio Arts, Painting
June 1997 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona ● B.A. Art, Drawing and Sculpture
COLLECTIONS/COMMISSIONS/AWARDS
Nevada Museum of Art Permanent Collection Kellog Gallery Permanent Collection Cover Illustration for Statement Literary Magazine Silkscreen Print Commemoration Feliz Navidad, Self Help Graphics Mural Painting for L.A. Works ‘99 Golden Apple Outstanding Student Teacher Award Purchase Award in Ink and Clay Show Best of Show Undergraduate Senior Show
Katie Queen
Katie Queen was born and spent her early years in Northern Colorado in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and later years on the plains of northeastern Boulder County. Queen has lived and worked in urban Los Angeles since 2003. Katie Queen is a mix media artist, preferring to work in clay, wood, fiber and painting. Classically trained as a ceramic artist, Queen praises traditional techniques and methods but is innovative in her alternative approaches to her predominant material, clay. Her work is process orientated through repetition and often remarks on the dichotomy of the natural and forced man-made world. The objects she creates reflect her ideas of what is tangible, what is imaginary, and what is imposed upon us from forces beyond our control. Her work presents formal concerns in composition and structure combined with loose, palpable explorations. Queen explores the symbolism of edices such as the square, grid, and arch in a tactile fashion. Even though we perceive these elements as strong and solid, they are transposed by the cumbersome and chaotic methods Queen employs. Katie is co-founder of the curatorial team Q&L Projects, an unassociated art cooperative working with a multitude of exhibition spaces and institutions including the Bauhaus 100 lecture series in Weimer, Germany and the Craft in American Center Los Angeles, CA., as well as other institutions.
Queen earned her undergraduate degree in 2000 at the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri and received her MFA in 2003 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Queen was an artist-in-residence at the Worcester Center for Crafts in Worcester, Massachusetts 2000 and Art Farm in Marquette, Nebraska in 2017. She is an tenured Professor at Los Angeles Valley College and an Adjunct Professor at Mount San Antonio College.
Website: katiequeen.com
Amy Santoferraro
Amy Santoferraro, born in Akron, Ohio, is the progeny of a carpenter and retailer. She received her M.F.A in Ceramic Art from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, in Alfred, New York in 2012. Amy earned her B.A.E (Art Education) and her B.F.A (Ceramics) from The Ohio State University In 2004. While at Ohio State, Amy was an apprentice and Undergraduate Research Scholar. Amy has been a Summer Resident and Studio Manger at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine and now serves on the board. Amy was a Resident Artist at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, in Gatlinburg Tennessee and a four year Resident Artist at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Amy was awarded a McKnight Residency Grant for Ceramic Artists in a partnership through the McKnight Foundation and The Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was the Ceramics Area Coordinator and an Assistant Professor of Art at Kansas State University. Amy was the Spring 2017 Visiting Instructor in Residence at Oregon College of Arts and Craft in Portland, Oregon and the Program Manager, MFA Applied Craft and Design (OCAC/PNCA) in Portland, Oregon, the Joan and David Lincoln Visiting Professor at Scripps College and Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Amy is currently the Ceramics Area coordinator at Cal State Los Angeles and lives and works in Pomona, CA.
Brenda Starks
Website: https://brendastarks.com
Craig Wisner
30 years of studio ceramics experience in both handbuilding and wheel throwing. 23 years of experience as a full-time ceramics educator. Experience in all aspects of ceramics studio maintenance, including firing at all temperatures in both gas and electric kilns, mixing clay/glazes, general studio operation. Excellent interpersonal communication, mediation, and classroom management skills. Extensive studio budgeting/materials management experience.
Ceramics Teacher- Culver City High School. Culver City, CA. 2000-Present
Tetsuji Aono
Born 1969 Yokohama, Japan
Cal State Univ. Los Angeles, Lecturer, Professor
Michael Arata
1. Doug Harvey review. ARATA TAT TAT https://lessart.wordpress.com/2021/04/15/arata-tat-tat/2/
2. Divereted destruction link. Face book. 2022
http://www.diversionsla.com/diverted-destruction-at-csula-14th-iteration-of-making-magic-from-discardedobjects/
Izzy Favela
Los Angeles-based artist, Isai "Izzy" Favela is best known for his juxtaposition of geometric forms (human) and organisms (nature) in ceramics. Which are interspersed with messages and realistic pieces that refer to the conflict between human and nature through habitat loss and fragmentation, overexploitation, pollution, and invasive species. This feeling is reflected through Izzy’s choice of material. In contrast to the fine craftsmanship associated with clay and glazes. Nature holds a special relevance in Favela’s practice and his works often reference that, as humans, we too come from mother earth. He seeks to draw attention to the ecological crisis generated by anthropocenic actions and remind people that the problem is drastically progressing as the world continues to be paved. Using light sources within the sculpture, Favela focuses on a discreet, intimate moment and connects the viewer to the piece. Isai places the personal within a broader macro-relationship to human vs. nature. Each viewer will ultimately see something different. He has exhibited his artwork at The American Museum of Ceramic Art, The Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, COMA Gallery, and the Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery
Joanne Horton
Born on July 15, 1972, and raised in Los Angeles, California. She studied at Otis College of Art and Design with Ralph Bacerra, and graduated in 1994 with a BFA degree in Ceramics. Her work deals with the issues of sexuality and popular culture, and the way that women strive to fit the the impossible stan- dards set forth by Hollywood and the fashion industry. Joanne is particularly inspired by plastic surgery, both good and bad. In her work, she shares Ralph Bacerra’s ethos of creating art that is beautiful and well constructed.
Website http://www.creativefire-studio.com
Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly is a ceramic artist and studio art instructor working in Los Angeles, California. Sean was introduced to ceramic art through sculptor Luis Bermudez during his undergraduate program at California State University, Los Angeles. Sean earned his B.A. and M.F.A in Studio Art from CSULA. Sean has served as a ceramics instructor for undergraduate courses and for K-12 arts programs within Los Angeles. Sean's art practice is conceptually driven by storytelling, mythology, scientific knowledge, and the natural world. Sean has participated in group exhibitions at The American Museum of Ceramic Art, The Luckman Gallery, and the Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery.
Website: https://seankellyartist.com Instragram:@seankellyart
Jim Keville
Website: http://www.jimkeville.com/cv.html
Kathleen Klein-Wakefield
I like to use ceramic clay to make sculptures. I like clay as it enables me to draw in the 3rd dimension. I see my sculptures as 3D Drawings. Most of the objects I like to sculpt are the ones rich with history and details that I can manipulate and have fun with. I can combine details to where they become absurd or playful. I use different building techniques and surface treatments such as marks in the clay, surface textures, and glazing to make the sculptures identifiable. With these, I can suggest wood or metal. Occasionally I add actual wood and metal in small amounts, a dash or sprinkle. However, the sculptures are primarily made out of clay.
Many of the objects I sculpt in clay such as cameras, radios, telephones, and clocks are changing or disappearing completely or their definitions and roles have changed significantly. They tend to retain a relatable quality to them.
Nikki Lewis
Nikki Lewis is a Los Angeles based ceramic artist and educator who has worked in the ceramics field for over 25 years. She explores pattern, design, color theory, and narrative in her hand-built and thrown works. Lewis has exhibited widely and lectures frequently on mid-century female ceramic artists, most notably at the Bauhaus Centennial. In addition to teaching and making, Lewis co-founded KL Projects with artist Katie Queen and has curated several contemporary ceramic exhibitions. Lewis holds her MFA from UCLA and is Professor of Art at Mt. San Antonio College.
Diana Madriaga
My work is sculptural narrative amalgamating mythology, lore and history. By utilizing domestic materials such as wood, fibers, ceramic and glass, I wish to engage the viewer through subconscious familiarity. I work thematically within a specific timeline for each body of work, submerging myself in techniques and the social and cultural practices of the era. I use material and experiential discovery to create storylines that accompany my work.
I am currently working in the Victorian era and producing work fabricated by traditional methods using contemporary tools. I am drawn to the period’s architecture, home furnishings and unique inventions created to improve quotidian domestic tasks. I am fascinated by the creative solutions inventors would employ to construct. Objects like butter churns, stereoscopes and elaborate quilts often catch my eye. deconstructing their complex facture illuminates the creator’s vision. I find inspiration for my work in the inconspicuous details. I can only hope to capture a fragment of their brilliance with a meticulous eye to every joint, coil, stitch and soldered seam.
Website: dianamadriaga.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@claytocanopy
Rich Mudge
Toys are fascinating. They are such complex little objects of cosmopolitan mythology within consumerism, inspiring rituals that make it the billion-dollar industry that it is today. The mass consumption of toys is significant of, and mirrors current desires with in popular culture. Art exists on much the same line. The collection of high art spans the gamut, yet, in this world, it is the collection of these elite objects that drives the machinery of museum, gallery, artist, and connoisseur. In fact, when you place a toy collector of mass culture next to an art collector of elite culture and peel away the layers, they are the very same person. They both worship their objects, the objects generally appreciate in value, often the objects are enshrined in the house, and these objects are the center pieces of many social functions. Ultimately the objects are a mark of their place within socio-consumerist hierarchy. For this piece, I chose to create what looks to be a toy car from multiple, interlocking tiles. Traditional ceramics finds its roots deep within functionality, namely utilitarian ware and decorative tiles. Though the piece comprises of mostly tiles, it portends a completely different form of functionality.
Website: https://creativefire-studio.com & https://www.creativefirekilnandkitchen.com
Elaine Parks
Elaine Parks Elaine is a ceramicist and sculptor. A Los Angeles native, she received her MFA from California State University, Los Angeles. In 1999 Parks moved from a town of 14 million to Tuscarora, Nevada, a town of 14 people. In Nevada, her work has been exhibited at the Nevada Museum of Art, Oats Park Art Center, Marjorie Barrick Museum, Sierra Arts and The Holland Project. Elaine taught art for seven years at Great Basin College in Elko and twice received the Nevada Arts Council Fellowship Award. She is a board member of the Tuscarora Pottery School and Double Scoop Art. During her most recent period of residence in Los Angeles, Elaine participated twice in Telephone, an international game of art, whispered around the world. In 2010, Elaine curated and hosted a pop-up exhibition with 24 artists, music and performance events called pLAyLAnd. Nationally and internationally, Elaine was part of LA Contraventions in Germany, Cryptographics: a tribute to the Voynich Manuscript at the EXPO Chicago and designed sets and costumes for Cabaret Revoltaire: 100 Years of Dada, a performance event at ArtShareLA. Elaine exhibited in Los Angeles at LA Artcore, Far Bazaar, Angels Gate Cultural Center, L2Kontemporary, Antebellum Gallery and Beyond Baroque. Elaine is now a permanent resident of Nevada, a place she considers her spiritual home.
Website: https://www.behance.net/elaineparks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elaineparksart/
Tuan Phan
Education:
March 2001 California State University, Los Angeles ● M.F.A. Studio Arts, Painting
June 1997 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona ● B.A. Art, Drawing and Sculpture
COLLECTIONS/COMMISSIONS/AWARDS
Nevada Museum of Art Permanent Collection Kellog Gallery Permanent Collection Cover Illustration for Statement Literary Magazine Silkscreen Print Commemoration Feliz Navidad, Self Help Graphics Mural Painting for L.A. Works ‘99 Golden Apple Outstanding Student Teacher Award Purchase Award in Ink and Clay Show Best of Show Undergraduate Senior Show
Katie Queen
Katie Queen was born and spent her early years in Northern Colorado in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and later years on the plains of northeastern Boulder County. Queen has lived and worked in urban Los Angeles since 2003. Katie Queen is a mix media artist, preferring to work in clay, wood, fiber and painting. Classically trained as a ceramic artist, Queen praises traditional techniques and methods but is innovative in her alternative approaches to her predominant material, clay. Her work is process orientated through repetition and often remarks on the dichotomy of the natural and forced man-made world. The objects she creates reflect her ideas of what is tangible, what is imaginary, and what is imposed upon us from forces beyond our control. Her work presents formal concerns in composition and structure combined with loose, palpable explorations. Queen explores the symbolism of edices such as the square, grid, and arch in a tactile fashion. Even though we perceive these elements as strong and solid, they are transposed by the cumbersome and chaotic methods Queen employs. Katie is co-founder of the curatorial team Q&L Projects, an unassociated art cooperative working with a multitude of exhibition spaces and institutions including the Bauhaus 100 lecture series in Weimer, Germany and the Craft in American Center Los Angeles, CA., as well as other institutions.
Queen earned her undergraduate degree in 2000 at the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri and received her MFA in 2003 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Queen was an artist-in-residence at the Worcester Center for Crafts in Worcester, Massachusetts 2000 and Art Farm in Marquette, Nebraska in 2017. She is an tenured Professor at Los Angeles Valley College and an Adjunct Professor at Mount San Antonio College.
Website: katiequeen.com
Amy Santoferraro
Amy Santoferraro, born in Akron, Ohio, is the progeny of a carpenter and retailer. She received her M.F.A in Ceramic Art from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, in Alfred, New York in 2012. Amy earned her B.A.E (Art Education) and her B.F.A (Ceramics) from The Ohio State University In 2004. While at Ohio State, Amy was an apprentice and Undergraduate Research Scholar. Amy has been a Summer Resident and Studio Manger at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine and now serves on the board. Amy was a Resident Artist at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, in Gatlinburg Tennessee and a four year Resident Artist at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Amy was awarded a McKnight Residency Grant for Ceramic Artists in a partnership through the McKnight Foundation and The Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was the Ceramics Area Coordinator and an Assistant Professor of Art at Kansas State University. Amy was the Spring 2017 Visiting Instructor in Residence at Oregon College of Arts and Craft in Portland, Oregon and the Program Manager, MFA Applied Craft and Design (OCAC/PNCA) in Portland, Oregon, the Joan and David Lincoln Visiting Professor at Scripps College and Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Amy is currently the Ceramics Area coordinator at Cal State Los Angeles and lives and works in Pomona, CA.
Brenda Starks
Website: https://brendastarks.com
Craig Wisner
30 years of studio ceramics experience in both handbuilding and wheel throwing. 23 years of experience as a full-time ceramics educator. Experience in all aspects of ceramics studio maintenance, including firing at all temperatures in both gas and electric kilns, mixing clay/glazes, general studio operation. Excellent interpersonal communication, mediation, and classroom management skills. Extensive studio budgeting/materials management experience.
Ceramics Teacher- Culver City High School. Culver City, CA. 2000-Present
Tetsuji Aono
Born 1969 Yokohama, Japan
Cal State Univ. Los Angeles, Lecturer, Professor